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SOME LOCKPORT GRANGE ACTIVITIES. 
What “ Getting Together” Means. 
Director L. H. Goddard of United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture wrote in December: “Much has 
been said regarding cooperative organizations in 
Ireland, Denmark, Germany, and other European 
countries, but we hear very little of what has been 
done along that line in this country. Indeed, many 
talk as though scarcely anything whatever had been 
and a short account of what our Grange has done 
may help other organizations. 
Lockport Grange, No. 1262, was organized two 
years ago on the 30th of January, 1912, with 57 
charter members, and when one year old had but 
90 members. Then we initiated a contest for new 
members, with the prize to the one obtaining the 
most new members of a trip to Ithaca with expenses 
paid for Farmers' Week. This created much in¬ 
terest and brought in many new members, 
tile put down in America was laid in 1835 on the 
Johnson farm at Geneva, New York, there are a 
great many parts of the .State that would be greatly 
enhanced in productiveness and value by using tile 
draining. 
We used several cars of fertilizers, grape posts, 
lumber and lime and have done considerable other 
wholesale buying, but very little as yet in coopera¬ 
tive selling, though there are plans under way for 
the growing of seed oats, corn and potatoes and 
LOCKPORT, N. Y„ 
GRANGE TAKES THE ROAD. 
A LOAD OF I HUMAN FRUIT FOR TIIE MOTOR TRUCK. 
Fig. 155. 
accomplished here. So far as we can judge, how¬ 
ever, from the scraps of information which are com¬ 
ing to us from all sides, the amount of organization 
work which has been done in this country is very 
much under-estimated. It is probable that a sum¬ 
mary of it all will show that instead of standing 
still as many have supposed, we have as a matter of 
fact, been advancing very fast indeed.” 
Cooperation is one of the greatest things in life 
for farmers and fruit growers, getting together and 
exchanging experiences and methods, buying in 
quantity at wholesale and acting in harmony and 
cutting out petty wrauglings—that is cooperation, 
so that we now have 200. with large classes 
being taken in on every day assigned for the 
purpose, and consider this a good showing for a 
two-year infant Grange. The first master was E. 
E. Crosby, then Earl Gregory and the present in¬ 
cumbent is G. W. Haines. The past year there has 
been much cooperative buying, Daniel N. Pomeroy 
having been appointed purchasing agent. We have 
used several carloads of tile this past Fall, and a 
large part of this tile-draining would not have been 
done, at least not right away, had it not been for 
the Grange and the cheaper prices (40% discount) 
obtained through cooperation. Although the first 
selling through this joint action and advertising. 
The Lockport Grange has won *ne fii’st prize at 
the Niagara County Fair the two years of its entry, 
with keen competition from other Granges. The 
get-together spirit of these exhibits has been ex¬ 
tremely good, the members taking active part and 
interest and now intend entering exhibit at this 
year’s State Fair. We have beaten the rest of the 
State in a race on fruit growing, as Niagara County 
is admitted the banner fruit county of the Union, 
and so it is with all assurance of success that we 
plan on our State Grange competition. 
It is very easy to understand the social and busi- 
